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he then, in his adopted home of daly city, joined the daly city city council, served there for 10 years, serving as mayor for two years. he then stepped up to the san matillo county board of supervisors and served on that board for 12 years. in his collective 10 year at both daly city city council and county board of supervisors he served on a variety of regional agencies, mtc, caltrain, bay area management district, you name it, he probably served on it. what i got to know him well on was transportation issues. when i had the pleasure of serving at the caltran board where supervisor cohen is now, and it could open any door you wanted. he was a legend, not just because of his warm amazing permipersonality and intellect. but more beyond his public service and commitment i think what i will remember most about mike and the example he most set to me is that of dedication to family and dedication to his community. much more beyond being an elected office, having some sort of title. i think the title he cared most about was father, grandfather, brother, cousin. his family was so absolutely i
he then, in his adopted home of daly city, joined the daly city city council, served there for 10 years, serving as mayor for two years. he then stepped up to the san matillo county board of supervisors and served on that board for 12 years. in his collective 10 year at both daly city city council and county board of supervisors he served on a variety of regional agencies, mtc, caltrain, bay area management district, you name it, he probably served on it. what i got to know him well on was...
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he then in his adopted home of daly city joined the daly city city council, served there for 10 years serving as mayor for two years. he then stepped up to the san matillo county board of supervisors and served on that board for 12 years. in his collective 10 year at both daly city city council and county board of supervisors he served on a variety of regional agencies, mtc, caltrain, bay area management district you name it, he probably served on it. what i got to know him well on was transportation issues. when i had the pleasure of serving at the caltran board where supervisor cohen is now, you
he then in his adopted home of daly city joined the daly city city council, served there for 10 years serving as mayor for two years. he then stepped up to the san matillo county board of supervisors and served on that board for 12 years. in his collective 10 year at both daly city city council and county board of supervisors he served on a variety of regional agencies, mtc, caltrain, bay area management district you name it, he probably served on it. what i got to know him well on was...
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based on that, we recommend that it be approved and made permanent and we presented the results to city planning and they gave it a categorical exemption now for this particular proposal. >> what is the board's mesh you? er >> motion to approve. >> second. >> any discussion? all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> opposed? thank you. ms. gilbert. >> moving on to item 10.5, authorizing the director to execute a termination agreement with the city of san francisco downtown parking corporation for the fifth & mission garage, and execute agreements with vendors, consultants, and commercial tenants. directors, in addition to a member of the public wishing to address you, staff also requested that the item be severed. they would request that you amend the resolution to add language to -- one of the result clauses that would state -- it would add the following language. on term substantially similar to the enclosed agreement. so, the further resolve clause would read the san francisco transportation authorizes the director to execute a termination agreement with the san francisco downtown parking [sp
based on that, we recommend that it be approved and made permanent and we presented the results to city planning and they gave it a categorical exemption now for this particular proposal. >> what is the board's mesh you? er >> motion to approve. >> second. >> any discussion? all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> opposed? thank you. ms. gilbert. >> moving on to item 10.5, authorizing the director to execute a termination agreement with the city of san...
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i'm manager of the tour program as well as i am the historyian of city hall. this building is multifaceted to say the very least it's a municipal building that operates the city and county of san francisco. this building was a dream that became a reality of a man by the name of james junior elected mayor of san francisco in 1912. he didn't have a city hall because it was destroyed in the earth wake of 1906. construction began in april of 1913. in december 1915, the building was complete. it opened it's doors in january 1916. >> it's a wonderful experience to come to a building built like this. the building is built as a palace. not for a king or queen. it's built for all people. this building is beautiful art. those are architecture at the time when city hall was built, san francisco had an enormous french population. therefore building a palace in the art tradition is not unusual. >> jimmie was an incredible individual he knew that san francisco had to regain it's place in the world. he decided to have the tallest dome built in the united states. it's now sta
i'm manager of the tour program as well as i am the historyian of city hall. this building is multifaceted to say the very least it's a municipal building that operates the city and county of san francisco. this building was a dream that became a reality of a man by the name of james junior elected mayor of san francisco in 1912. he didn't have a city hall because it was destroyed in the earth wake of 1906. construction began in april of 1913. in december 1915, the building was complete. it...
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i've been speaking the last several days with the city attorney's office and actually this afternoon with mr. roberts and mr. katari. we have a few remaining issues with respect to the lease termination. it is the expectation those remaining issues will be resolved and the language finalized no later than friday at 12 o'clock. i've discussed that with mr. katari. the staff recommendation as the board understands it is to approve the lease termination subject to the ability to ratify the language provided that it remains substantially similar to the agreement before the board and we agree with that recommendation. >> sir, thank you. anybody else care to address the board? if not, we need to do the amendment first as described. there is a motion to approve the amendment. is there a second >> second. >> discussion all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> opposed? okay. [laughter] >> okay. the man is willing to wait three hours to tell us he likes [speaker not understood]. [laughter] >> i'm not going to stand in the way. >> okay. we have a motion to second on the amended resolution. all in favor
i've been speaking the last several days with the city attorney's office and actually this afternoon with mr. roberts and mr. katari. we have a few remaining issues with respect to the lease termination. it is the expectation those remaining issues will be resolved and the language finalized no later than friday at 12 o'clock. i've discussed that with mr. katari. the staff recommendation as the board understands it is to approve the lease termination subject to the ability to ratify the...
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as you know, 99% of the cabs are situated in the south part of the city. and they need to get to the downtown area to go to work in most cases. some of them will go to noe valley or the mission if they get call. so, it's a concern if you allow the left turn going north on sixth street at harrison and then you've also allow for the parking on the east side of 5th street, you are creating much more gridlock. * calls almost to the point where you're going to get huge levels of service by up to e or f, and i am very concerned what you're going to do and how it's going to affect cab service because of the fact it's going to cause more gridlock on that street. please, you all, i invite you all to drive that all in an afternoon, particularly let's say on a thursday or friday, how to get into the city. and you know the cabs -- again, where the cabs are situated when there's a change of shift. so, if you want to harm service in the downtown area or in north beach or in nob hill, then go ahead and make traffic on sixth street going northbound worse. and this is what
as you know, 99% of the cabs are situated in the south part of the city. and they need to get to the downtown area to go to work in most cases. some of them will go to noe valley or the mission if they get call. so, it's a concern if you allow the left turn going north on sixth street at harrison and then you've also allow for the parking on the east side of 5th street, you are creating much more gridlock. * calls almost to the point where you're going to get huge levels of service by up to e...
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i've gt confidence in this city to take care of it. >> the city estimates that the cost of the repair runs into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, but they're not worried about paying for it. unlike other cities, lafayette has a $5 million rainy day fund as its called and as city managers told us. yesterday qualifies as a rainy day. in lafayette, abc 7 news. >> this did thank you. near scott's valley would be closed sometime as well. you can see part of one lane has been washed away. this is a sparsely populated area but people who live here it's going to be inconvenient getting around this closure, officials should have a better idea how long this will take within the next few days. >> we're learning tonight 30,000 gallons of raw sewage spilled out of a man hole during the storm. the ross valley sanitary district blaimz it on a clogged sewer line. some 20,000 gallons washed in the local creeks and streams. >> students will be back in class tomorrow in a marin county middle school closed today because of storm damage. a building in white hall middle school took significant damage w
i've gt confidence in this city to take care of it. >> the city estimates that the cost of the repair runs into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, but they're not worried about paying for it. unlike other cities, lafayette has a $5 million rainy day fund as its called and as city managers told us. yesterday qualifies as a rainy day. in lafayette, abc 7 news. >> this did thank you. near scott's valley would be closed sometime as well. you can see part of one lane has been washed...
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i didn't know. >> the city predicts it may not be until spring until repaired. first order of business is stopping the next flow of rain. >> all but one water line has within addressed. there is one water line that needs to be fixed, or cutoff. so that is what we're going to do today. >> those who live here will probably have to get used to the sight of the sink hole, trucks and equipment that moved in to repair it. >> this can take weeks and months to fix its going to be rough. rough for people there, that is for sure. >> and so now this road will
i didn't know. >> the city predicts it may not be until spring until repaired. first order of business is stopping the next flow of rain. >> all but one water line has within addressed. there is one water line that needs to be fixed, or cutoff. so that is what we're going to do today. >> those who live here will probably have to get used to the sight of the sink hole, trucks and equipment that moved in to repair it. >> this can take weeks and months to fix its going to...
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in terms of general, broad and -- what parents are saying broadly in the city, the city issued a city survey back in 2009. i have a few points from that survey. one is that parents report that amid news of children's programs and an increasing rate. that is seen in our database. we saw a significant increase in children and entered into our data system being served in the last two years. another point was that although there is a level use of top care programs in the city for children under 6, we are seeing a huge intake in after-school programs, youth employment programs, and counseling programs for young people. parents who send their children to san francisco schools, public and private, say they really love their school. i think this notion of a school being a bad school, and that is why they are leaving, is perhaps a small portion of the population. i will admit it is difficult. being a parent who had to go through the school enrollment process, it was difficult. but we have lots of parent organizations out there that support the parents in trying to maneuver through and understa
in terms of general, broad and -- what parents are saying broadly in the city, the city issued a city survey back in 2009. i have a few points from that survey. one is that parents report that amid news of children's programs and an increasing rate. that is seen in our database. we saw a significant increase in children and entered into our data system being served in the last two years. another point was that although there is a level use of top care programs in the city for children under 6,...
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it is something the city needs. supervisor farrell: any other members of the public who wish to speak? just a few closing comments. the reason this item -- we actually have two fiscal committees at the board of supervisors. during budget season, that is the reason why we have a second fiscal committee. that is why we have these items in front of us. i just want to thank all the speakers who came out and the members of our city staff and departments to cannot to speak. always have -- who came out to speak. san francisco is incredibly unique because of our different neighborhoods. small binesses are the backbone of our neighborhoods. we think this is an important piece of legislation. i want to thank my colleagues. supervisor campos: i want to add something. i do want to thank the lord 24th street merchants association -- lower 24th street merchants association. to make sure the perspective of how this would work on the ground was taken into consideration and to make sure that it was something that was done in the mos
it is something the city needs. supervisor farrell: any other members of the public who wish to speak? just a few closing comments. the reason this item -- we actually have two fiscal committees at the board of supervisors. during budget season, that is the reason why we have a second fiscal committee. that is why we have these items in front of us. i just want to thank all the speakers who came out and the members of our city staff and departments to cannot to speak. always have -- who came...
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i'm raising two yen kids in the city. -- young kids in the city. we are presented with similar challenges of doing that. it is an important topic. mary had joked about stealing the logo. our mission is to help families through out. our primary focus of the department -- this is an important topic. i want to structure my presentation by making the connection that adrian had in her first presentation, a list of factors that impact families. the director also talked about quality of life issues. i am just a sort of making the connection between parks and open space and recreation, the fundamental purpose of this hearing is to help families that have been living in the area. it is clear and in disputed, -- and indisputed. parks improve safety. it has strongly been linked to reductions in crime and juvenile delinquency. their national organizations that study urban park system's a great deal at there are tons of data to give people safe environments to interact with their peers. parks also improve public health. at the center for disease control has rep
i'm raising two yen kids in the city. -- young kids in the city. we are presented with similar challenges of doing that. it is an important topic. mary had joked about stealing the logo. our mission is to help families through out. our primary focus of the department -- this is an important topic. i want to structure my presentation by making the connection that adrian had in her first presentation, a list of factors that impact families. the director also talked about quality of life issues. i...
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what can we do here in city hall? i think part of the issue of the board of supervisors is that there is a separate board of education, the what can we do to hell? -- to help? getting that message out there is a really big deal. maybe we aren't as engaged as we should be, but what can we be doing as supervisors to make that happen? >> supervisor farrell, you're starting it right today. the efforts we are seeing over the past five years have been instrumental. i don't think we have this level of partnership and to requirement -- and requirement from 15 years ago. that is why i was very grateful and the superintendent was very grateful to be able to be here. we can work for ways that we can cooperate and share a playground, for example. how we get the word out, it is a slow process. i don't think there is just a silver bullet that we can just come on land. i think it is an evolutionary process that began years ago. supervisor avalos: just to say i'm sure all of the members of the board of supervisors actively take part
what can we do here in city hall? i think part of the issue of the board of supervisors is that there is a separate board of education, the what can we do to hell? -- to help? getting that message out there is a really big deal. maybe we aren't as engaged as we should be, but what can we be doing as supervisors to make that happen? >> supervisor farrell, you're starting it right today. the efforts we are seeing over the past five years have been instrumental. i don't think we have this...
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>> not with other cities. this chart is what was referenced by the director in terms of the first 5 data. this talks about the decline in the last 10 years in number of children overall. in the last 10 years, the child population declined by about 5%. however, the number of children 5 and younger increased by 9%. you can see that increase of 9% was more than outweighed by the decrease in children 5 to 18. chairperson farrell: it just exacerbates how big the difference is with the five to eight teen group. i think there is a big difference for us as legislators in city hall to think about. if this is a national trend or national issue, that is ok, but that is different than if this is something san francisco is doing good or bad. i think that is important to look at. >> this is the other chart that was referenced earlier. this can lead to a great deal of speculation. this is the zero through five childrens' population by neighborhood. even know there was a 9% increase overall in the city over the past 10 years,
>> not with other cities. this chart is what was referenced by the director in terms of the first 5 data. this talks about the decline in the last 10 years in number of children overall. in the last 10 years, the child population declined by about 5%. however, the number of children 5 and younger increased by 9%. you can see that increase of 9% was more than outweighed by the decrease in children 5 to 18. chairperson farrell: it just exacerbates how big the difference is with the five to...
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and airport and other city properties. i'm going to say this will require further analysis during the annual budget process. so that's going to take a longer timeframe but that's something we're going to have to look at in next year's budget. and the same would be said for recommendation no. 11, regarding designating hotel tax for -- so forth. i suggest that also would require further analysis based upon next year's budget. and apologies, also for recommendation no. 12. that is designating hotel tax funds 1% of the value of the collection on an annual basis. i think that's something everyone would agree to but again we are in a restrictive capital and budget environment and it is competing priority with everything else and i think it is incumbent to look at everything at a wholesale kind of wholesome way during the budget process and we will do that. >> on this one, this will not be implemented or this requires further analysis -- >> president farrell: further analysis, no. 12. no. 13, clarify ownership and -- on rec and p
and airport and other city properties. i'm going to say this will require further analysis during the annual budget process. so that's going to take a longer timeframe but that's something we're going to have to look at in next year's budget. and the same would be said for recommendation no. 11, regarding designating hotel tax for -- so forth. i suggest that also would require further analysis based upon next year's budget. and apologies, also for recommendation no. 12. that is designating...
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feet. -- fold down to tthe city-wide fee. they will double down so we are not double charging. in terms of the expenditure plan, we expect it will generate $630 million over 20 years that will be used to leverage another $820 million in transportation revenue in local, state, and federal. they find a comprehensive, high the-regulated expenditure plan. the reason i am stressing how regulated it is, because we are meeting the requirements under the state mitigation fee act and the nexus study, as well as requiring these improvements serve as ways to use this under the review process, we are very constrained on how the funds can be spent. going into how they are proposed to be spent. 65% of the t.s.f. will fund service expansions. this is the most direct way to get it away and crowding. all of this has been put together in collaboration with the mta transit effectiveness project. the routes and winds and particular projects that are identified under the expenditure plan are building all of what has been analyzed and understood f
feet. -- fold down to tthe city-wide fee. they will double down so we are not double charging. in terms of the expenditure plan, we expect it will generate $630 million over 20 years that will be used to leverage another $820 million in transportation revenue in local, state, and federal. they find a comprehensive, high the-regulated expenditure plan. the reason i am stressing how regulated it is, because we are meeting the requirements under the state mitigation fee act and the nexus study, as...
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city in merman to review policies. today we're pleased to bring you this update in proposal for a programmatic approach called the transportation sustainability program. it will have reflected a truly collaborative effort on the part of four agencies. we're extremely grateful to the planning department staff for their partnership to sfmta staff, including their leafbiad on this effort, who are here today. i would be remiss if i did not appreciate reach a heigachel hyd others. i will turn this presentation over to alicia, and you should have some slides at your desk. >> good morning, commissioners. felicialicia jonbaptist. this is been a long-plant effort between the four offices. the program itself is innovative in that it relates to the develop a process, which are currently distinct and separate from the environmental review process and the impact fees in such a way to allow for the city to comprehensively fund assets of systematic transportation network improvements that better meet our transit first and other mode
city in merman to review policies. today we're pleased to bring you this update in proposal for a programmatic approach called the transportation sustainability program. it will have reflected a truly collaborative effort on the part of four agencies. we're extremely grateful to the planning department staff for their partnership to sfmta staff, including their leafbiad on this effort, who are here today. i would be remiss if i did not appreciate reach a heigachel hyd others. i will turn this...
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forward thinking and willing to embrace new ideas and what the city to do a great job. in many respects we are doing a great job. i think that is important. as we seek to improve the services we provide, we have to continually point out the successes we have because we want the people of san francisco to know that this is a challenge we can face. this is something we can have an impact on, whether it is family homelessness, veterans, women who are victims of domestic violence and their families, all of these issues can be addressed if we try and bring best practices and understand what is in front of us. hope is about housing opportunity. that means shelters, supportive housing, public, and affordable housing. it is important to emphasize that we know some of our population who has been homeless have been house. people cannot thrive in public housing. i met with an attorney who was representing the family who was evicted. a boy was shot and killed and i thought that was not consider it, putting the family out on a straight because of the system -- a situation that was n
forward thinking and willing to embrace new ideas and what the city to do a great job. in many respects we are doing a great job. i think that is important. as we seek to improve the services we provide, we have to continually point out the successes we have because we want the people of san francisco to know that this is a challenge we can face. this is something we can have an impact on, whether it is family homelessness, veterans, women who are victims of domestic violence and their...
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first, there was a settlement back in 2009 with the city attorney and a list of employee use to allow them to exceed the sick pay threshold. at the time of the audit, we provided some documentation from debt settlement. maine the list of employees and the end result and balances -- mainly the list of employees and the end result and balances. we do not have it on file, the actual settlement. what we have is a list of items, a list of employees as a result of the agreement. we have been falling the terms of the agreement. we have not had any new -- we have been following the terms of the agreement. we have not had any new employees run into this problem. that list has been reduced as employees retire. it has been mainly through a set number of employees that were involved in the settlement at the time. it is not something we would have the power -- the sick pay is outlined in the mou. it was a special circumstance as a result of the lawsuit. we were following the terms of the agreement. the last contested dealt with the monitoring assignments, that is part of the issue we have would be
first, there was a settlement back in 2009 with the city attorney and a list of employee use to allow them to exceed the sick pay threshold. at the time of the audit, we provided some documentation from debt settlement. maine the list of employees and the end result and balances -- mainly the list of employees and the end result and balances. we do not have it on file, the actual settlement. what we have is a list of items, a list of employees as a result of the agreement. we have been falling...
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don't know -- >> we just wanted to note that the budgeting is based on the $2.75 per head that the city is required to appropriate. the expenditure for any one election could go up or down but the budget requirement does not. that is about 1.8 million. >> your letter refers to the budget appropriation we currently have as opposed to by increasing the cap, that we expect to see more or less spent in future elections. >> we did try to model that a little bit and i think it's accurate to say most of these provisions would tend to bring down the spending on any one election, but the appropriation requirement does not change. >> i think a lot of the changes are great and long overdue. we pushed for the supreme court thing last year. the total spending cap we are raising seems a very high. that is the thing that still bothers me, the total spending amount we are talking about here. everything else is great. thank you for your hard work. i think it is overdue. if you want to pass that out today, it -- if you really want a recommendation -- and not saying i don't get there, but today i would pr
don't know -- >> we just wanted to note that the budgeting is based on the $2.75 per head that the city is required to appropriate. the expenditure for any one election could go up or down but the budget requirement does not. that is about 1.8 million. >> your letter refers to the budget appropriation we currently have as opposed to by increasing the cap, that we expect to see more or less spent in future elections. >> we did try to model that a little bit and i think it's...
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appreciate all things we do in city hall take more time and effort. i was of the opinion this is worth it. certainly it does not make it easier, if you will. i certainly appreciate those concerns and comments. >> another question i had was the 65%. the way it is currently written, if we have multiple candidates in a primary, but when canada was able to get 65% + one of the votes, that they would when all right. curious as to how there is an openness to that if it was based on other types of election systems and other counties. to gsupervisor farrell: obviousy the goal is to maximize voter turnout. we have talked about that round and round of this committee. the notion of when you have a runoff system, if you will have november be the first boat or sick of it, inherently it will happen to the most voters. what we want to say is the reason september election came about was we wanted to have the most voters boat in the runoff for the final decision. that is why we went to a september election. admittedly, all loading systems are flawed in their own ways.
appreciate all things we do in city hall take more time and effort. i was of the opinion this is worth it. certainly it does not make it easier, if you will. i certainly appreciate those concerns and comments. >> another question i had was the 65%. the way it is currently written, if we have multiple candidates in a primary, but when canada was able to get 65% + one of the votes, that they would when all right. curious as to how there is an openness to that if it was based on other types...
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and that we continue to fund our other city would programs. we took those broad themes and working with those broad themes, working with individual districts and hearing the specific feedback people had to provide around projects. there were cases where the community felt projects that we have proposed were no longer her as relevant as they were in 2008 and preferred substitutions and there were new projects that were identified whether they were new parks in district 6 or south park as well as a strong desire to seek increased funding for mclaren and the inclusion of to demaio. we've developed a proposal that responded to these themes and the feedback of individual districts to develop a list of neighborhood parks to see reflected on this map. the total budget for this parks measure is $195 million. you can see it spread out between neighborhood parks, citywide parks are a continuation of city-wide programs and funding for waterfront parks and open space under the jurisdiction of the port. those funds for the recreation -- and park projects a
and that we continue to fund our other city would programs. we took those broad themes and working with those broad themes, working with individual districts and hearing the specific feedback people had to provide around projects. there were cases where the community felt projects that we have proposed were no longer her as relevant as they were in 2008 and preferred substitutions and there were new projects that were identified whether they were new parks in district 6 or south park as well as...
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i have seen that come back, yes. >> people still think of this city as the birth of that movement. great, thank you for talking about the background of the program. i'm excited to go shopping. >> i would like you to meet two street artists. this is linda and jeremy. >> night said to me to print them -- nice to meet you. >> can you talk to me about a variety of products that use cell? >> we have these lovely constructed platters. we make these wonderful powder bowls. they can have a lot of color. >> york also using your license. -- you are also using your license. >> this means that i can register with the city. this makes sure that our family participated in making all of these. >> this comes by licensed artists. the person selling it is the person that made it. there is nothing better than the people that made it. >> i would like you to meet michael johnson. he has been in the program for over 8 years. >> nice to me you. what inspired your photography? >> i am inspired everything that i see. the greatest thing about being a photographer is being able to show other people what i se
i have seen that come back, yes. >> people still think of this city as the birth of that movement. great, thank you for talking about the background of the program. i'm excited to go shopping. >> i would like you to meet two street artists. this is linda and jeremy. >> night said to me to print them -- nice to meet you. >> can you talk to me about a variety of products that use cell? >> we have these lovely constructed platters. we make these wonderful powder...
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and a full three quarters of the city's job growth has happened outside of the technology industry. the tourism industry alone, for example, supported 71,000 jobs in the year 2011 with a payroll of over 2 million-dollar and immense jobs creators between treasure island. the cp m c rebuild and a new warriors a arena over 4,000 permanent jobs and over 15,000 construction jobs will be created and sustained and we are rebuilding the city with san franciscoians thanks to your leadership on the local higher legislation not just for public projects but also private project like the proposed a marine eye 3030 and let's not forgot the manufacturing mere in san francisco through s of may we are offering programmings and technical assistance so that they can also be local job create ores i'm also crateful for san francisco voters who past thed housing trust fund to now allocate one $.2 billion in the next 30 years for low increase and moderate san franciscoians to house our workforce and keep families in san francisco so no, supervisor we will not crash the real estate market but invest in our
and a full three quarters of the city's job growth has happened outside of the technology industry. the tourism industry alone, for example, supported 71,000 jobs in the year 2011 with a payroll of over 2 million-dollar and immense jobs creators between treasure island. the cp m c rebuild and a new warriors a arena over 4,000 permanent jobs and over 15,000 construction jobs will be created and sustained and we are rebuilding the city with san franciscoians thanks to your leadership on the local...
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- we certainly have a general obligation bond oversight committee and we have bond oversight at the city college. so we have a more tradition of bond oversight than in the past. if this is not extended my understanding is that there would be effectively no oversight of the literally billions of dollars of [pwo-pbts/]s bonds that the puc has. so i would just offer those comments. on the legislation itself, sorry i did read it online 9-10, there there is no reference to section 1. there are section 2 and 3. unless you have any questions, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> through the chair to our city attorney real quick. does that make sense to have that in there, section 1? >> yes. >> we have it online? >> right under "be it ordained." >> can i take time to answer the question why we put 2013 into the legislation? soly so i will give you an honest answer. i was the economist on it and the sf puc said give us a plan and we'll >> instructor: >> instructor: so we picked 2013 for a reason, because state law, bay area water conservancy passed ab 1823 that said you must spend 50% of the mon
- we certainly have a general obligation bond oversight committee and we have bond oversight at the city college. so we have a more tradition of bond oversight than in the past. if this is not extended my understanding is that there would be effectively no oversight of the literally billions of dollars of [pwo-pbts/]s bonds that the puc has. so i would just offer those comments. on the legislation itself, sorry i did read it online 9-10, there there is no reference to section 1. there are...
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it seeks to take away voting for this city offices of around san francisco. rank boating will continue in supervisor races. i want to thank my colleagues to a join me today as co-sponsors of this charter amendment. supervisor of lolague, cohen, and wiener. i know we've had a lot of debate about this, but speaking again to explain why i brought this forward. first of all, this has not really lived up to its promises that were originally articulate it. one of the initial things is it would promote a lot less negative campaigning in city politics. i think if you look at the 2011 mayor's race, one would be hard- pressed to argue it was not a ton of negative campaigning going on. second, promote higher voter turnout. obviously in some alexian's there is higher turnout, and some elections there is not, specifically with the runoff between gavin newsom and the mayor here in stamford cisco. for me, more importantly, i do have a number of fundamental issues with rank choice of a boardivoting. the simple majority has the responsibility of -- has the ability to produce
it seeks to take away voting for this city offices of around san francisco. rank boating will continue in supervisor races. i want to thank my colleagues to a join me today as co-sponsors of this charter amendment. supervisor of lolague, cohen, and wiener. i know we've had a lot of debate about this, but speaking again to explain why i brought this forward. first of all, this has not really lived up to its promises that were originally articulate it. one of the initial things is it would...
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we want everybody to be safe, safe as you move across the city. and we want you to keep your belongings and stay connected. >> just to reinforce that, i encourage anyone to look around and see how many people have their heads down and they're looking at their device, seeing how inattentive they are. you can walk by and accidentally bump people, they are not paying attention. it is easy to get absorbed with the great media we have at our fingertips and block out surroundings. it is dangerous and not worth losing your device or jeopardize in your safety over it. the awareness is very important. the main way that we keep the system safe is through our engagement which and the san francisco police department. -- engagement with the san francisco police department. we are lucky that we have one of the best of the command staff working with us right now. she manages the enforcement arm of the mta including the san francisco police officers that work and ride the buses. they are largely responsible to be how to be safe when learning how to ride on the sy
we want everybody to be safe, safe as you move across the city. and we want you to keep your belongings and stay connected. >> just to reinforce that, i encourage anyone to look around and see how many people have their heads down and they're looking at their device, seeing how inattentive they are. you can walk by and accidentally bump people, they are not paying attention. it is easy to get absorbed with the great media we have at our fingertips and block out surroundings. it is...
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i want to make sure we have a deal that is fair to the city and the port. it is not for us to consider. it is for us to be engaged in conversations. i'd think we all know that they have the number of legs. with this approval, it is time for us to go to the next leg and the hope that we approve this tonight and move it forward. >> i started this hearing looking at this with a lot of skepticism and i ever looked at my role in improving the project as coming forward with coming to the table with skepticism. overall, i am concerned about costs. i believe what was presented with a row and adequate. they were created for the conditions of moving forward on how america's cup will be organized. i have questions remaining. and these things are going to be key for me as was assuring that what i had been part of approving in december 2010, the red be no hint of a general fund. about if we're going to afford of the mitigating measures that have been appointed to in this. we'll look through in the budget process how we can assess those issues. >> i will be voting for th
i want to make sure we have a deal that is fair to the city and the port. it is not for us to consider. it is for us to be engaged in conversations. i'd think we all know that they have the number of legs. with this approval, it is time for us to go to the next leg and the hope that we approve this tonight and move it forward. >> i started this hearing looking at this with a lot of skepticism and i ever looked at my role in improving the project as coming forward with coming to the table...
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factors of why families cannot stay in the city. that said, the mayor's office of housing have identified that funding for housing with a cut to redevelopment has diminished. hopefully, we can get some of that back at some point during this election season. that would be great to be able to find affordable housing for the people who are struggling to stay in san francisco. what i wanted to say is our policies are also kind of pointing as in the direction we're not heading toward. we want to keep families in san francisco. the performance art that was released said market -- the rate housing has exceeded the goals the general plan has for housing production. shows we're heading in the wrong direction if our mission is to retain families in san francisco. considering market reproduction is not producing housing to affordability levels that will keep this families here. if we do not get our policies in line in order to stem the production of market rate housing and increase the production of affordable housing, lot of this will not mat
factors of why families cannot stay in the city. that said, the mayor's office of housing have identified that funding for housing with a cut to redevelopment has diminished. hopefully, we can get some of that back at some point during this election season. that would be great to be able to find affordable housing for the people who are struggling to stay in san francisco. what i wanted to say is our policies are also kind of pointing as in the direction we're not heading toward. we want to...
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, to tax us a little bit on it, but this is what we do as a great international city. all of you have a very distinct role in all of this and it's my pleasure to begin telling you how proud i am and the months of september and particularly october have all been full of great events, and numerous events, and sometimes on schedules that while we had mentally took note they would be on the similar weekends, we were of course needing to really communicate with each other, and make sure we did all the things in the background that no one ever sees and talks to each other to make sure things happen smoothly, and i want to give big kudos to ed risin and all the others in transportation and advising people to take public transportation and emphasize that in all of our major international and worldwide and world seize of events that happened in the city. >> >> whether it's america's cup or fleet week or some incredible music on the bluegrass side of the city as well as just neighborhood events that we continue to invite we shined very well because we did do the right emphasis a
, to tax us a little bit on it, but this is what we do as a great international city. all of you have a very distinct role in all of this and it's my pleasure to begin telling you how proud i am and the months of september and particularly october have all been full of great events, and numerous events, and sometimes on schedules that while we had mentally took note they would be on the similar weekends, we were of course needing to really communicate with each other, and make sure we did all...
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city, and to attract new families to come into the city. i, for one, and a transplant from the east coast. if people were to ask me why i came to the city, and number of things. i love the environment here. i love the culture. i want my children to grow in a place that has lots of diversity. i want my children to be exposed to the way of life and thinking in the city. one of the reports you have in front of you is dated 2005-2008. it is called tackling family flight. back in 2005, mayor newsom tasked the city to strengthen the foundation of support for children, youth, and families. we know the only way to really tackle family flight, because it is multifaceted, is by creating a collaboration with in the city and with our private partners. i believe this is the key. we need to get everyone in the city on the same page having this conversation. it is one thing to have city officials having this conversation, but we need to bring philanthropic and corporate partners. the council identified seven key areas that impacted family fight. nothing s
city, and to attract new families to come into the city. i, for one, and a transplant from the east coast. if people were to ask me why i came to the city, and number of things. i love the environment here. i love the culture. i want my children to grow in a place that has lots of diversity. i want my children to be exposed to the way of life and thinking in the city. one of the reports you have in front of you is dated 2005-2008. it is called tackling family flight. back in 2005, mayor newsom...
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for the city plan, the city supports will be capped at the blue shield level. we encourage all employees to make intelligent choices about their health. >> that is for employee only? >> the dependent care benefits stay exactly the same. there is already an incentive to make intelligent choices there. we believe we have presented a package of contracts that are extremely fair to the city and to taxpayers which acknowledge labour's support and concessions in years past, which are modest -- almost no growth in year one and we recommend respectfully the committee approved them and send them to the full board. supervisor elsbernd: was there must discussion about well mess? -- well mess? -- wellness? >> yes. council members, including most of the biggest unions in the city, we will be looking at models were we can save money in a number of ways, but we are looking at other jurisdictions, including chicago and los angeles were there has been a carrot and stick approach where you are looking at baseline treatments and rewarding people who are taking preventative care o
for the city plan, the city supports will be capped at the blue shield level. we encourage all employees to make intelligent choices about their health. >> that is for employee only? >> the dependent care benefits stay exactly the same. there is already an incentive to make intelligent choices there. we believe we have presented a package of contracts that are extremely fair to the city and to taxpayers which acknowledge labour's support and concessions in years past, which are...
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conference of mayors and by scots miracle grow, because we are one of five cities being recognized with this award. is very special. they really wanted to express support for people taking seriously the movement around healthy environments. gooyou are going to find there a little kid living the dream by helping to grow edible things, someone we are going to recognize as a special person as well, and as someone who has been in city government for 23 years but started dpw days right here aunt knew how hard it was for people to generate a positive feeling, but they did it using a garden, so people could say, what is wrong having a garden that represents us, and having the youth center establish alongside the neighborhood, so there are so many stories to tell about how the community has come together, and now i think we are in historic times where there is a sense of community that has not been felt for many years. i knew there was fear that drove a lot of decisions, and these gardens, there is a special thing we are getting. we are using opportunities everywhere weekend. richard -- everywh
conference of mayors and by scots miracle grow, because we are one of five cities being recognized with this award. is very special. they really wanted to express support for people taking seriously the movement around healthy environments. gooyou are going to find there a little kid living the dream by helping to grow edible things, someone we are going to recognize as a special person as well, and as someone who has been in city government for 23 years but started dpw days right here aunt...
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the board of supervisors with their vote is and not have that merely be reflected by a line in the city's attorneys digest of legislation. they should communicate formally to that and. -- to that end. i'm not concerned with the particulars, i tend to favor the soft cap at i would have eased slightly different numbers, but i think this goes a distance to fixing the thing and making it work. i can live with all that. i want to focus on the municipal election code and the potential change any they want to follow- up on this, moving back the deadline date 58 days, almost two months to early june has the effect of commingling aspects of a june and november elections that do not exist. now the june election is done and put to bed, the best can't settle at least for with the november election. this moves the deadline so close as to require the department of elections to be verifying signature at the same time they are conducting the canvas. it is confusing to others and i think it is problematic and there are other ways to address these so-called zombie candidate issue and other ways to ensure t
the board of supervisors with their vote is and not have that merely be reflected by a line in the city's attorneys digest of legislation. they should communicate formally to that and. -- to that end. i'm not concerned with the particulars, i tend to favor the soft cap at i would have eased slightly different numbers, but i think this goes a distance to fixing the thing and making it work. i can live with all that. i want to focus on the municipal election code and the potential change any they...